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> All this because I fit a description. What was this description? I don’t know, black male between 4’11 and 7’4 probably. I have been stopped, searched, and detained in handcuffs …

Are there other examples of progress that were meaningfully advanced by changing commonly established terminology which was never purposefully offensive?

Until you wake up one morning and realize that all the things you loved about how the world works have changed.

> completely unaware of Gandhi’s sleeping with children I was unaware, and searching suggests you are referring to him sleeping naked in the same bed as a 17 or 18-year-old, withou…

As a counter-balance, I think the name is perfect. It is relevant and memorable enough for me to find again when I am in a position to spend the money on it, but generic enough to …

Eventually I confessed because I wanted to work on some other technology problems the company had, and the owner of the company sat me down for a chat. She explained that legally, …

My very first job as a young teen was basically this! I asked if I could just have access to the origin database instead of getting printouts, automated the whole thing, and contin…

Got me curious. Looks more like ~1,000/yr from car accidents: https://www.michigan.gov/documents/msp/DecadeGlanceFatals_38... (Still less than I would have guessed.) Also interesti…

> The web is a thousand times better now than it was ten years ago. How?? For who?? The web in 2010: type something into Google, click first result, enjoy life The web in 2020: typ…

Not understanding the lyrics can be part of the appeal, because it makes them less distracting. Understanding a little can make embarrassingly cheesy and saccharine pop lyrics take…

Using no libraries! a1([f,f,_,_,_,_]). a1([f,t,f,_,_,_]). a1([f,t,t,f,_,_]). a1([f,t,t,t,f,_]). a1([f,t,t,t,t,f]). a1([t,t,t,t,t,t]). a2([_,f,t,_,_,_]). a2([_,f,f,t,_,_]). a2([_,f,…

Even if all of those big faceless entities have the ability to monitor my every moment, I simply can't imagine anyone finding time in the day to bother. My mother, on the other han…

git filter-branch --env-filter " \ export GIT_AUTHOR_NAME=Dade\ Murphy \ GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL=zer0cool@example.com \ GIT_COMMITTER_NAME=Dade\ Murphy \ GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL=zer0cool@exam…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZ6nREONy_4

Amusingly, I grew a full beard at 27 or so and started getting carded all the time!

Would be fun to see logs from RH back then. [2003-10-14 02:51] hey moot - there's this cool website at http://www.4chan.net/ you should check it out. it's really looking like the n…

I use and appreciate those conveniences too, without having ever signed in to Chrome or using Chrome Sync. Many privacy-conscious people make all the same tradeoffs that everyone e…

Paper letters with envelopes and stamps were as ubiquitous in 1990 as email is today, and there have been plenty of articles in The Straight Dope where Cecil Adams - a fictional, b…

This conversation seems more analogous: "I raise elephants, but they are bred to be as small as possible." "They're _either_ elephants, _or_ bred to be as small as possible."

It seems possible that having to puzzle them out makes it an effective way to learn, at least if you can stand to.

I have seen use-of-force training exercises that look very similar except there is actually a weapon being drawn. I don't think it makes the officer who pulled the trigger innocent…

On X11 you can do better: the clipboard isn't actually stored anywhere, the program requesting the paste gets the data directly from the program that claimed the clipboard. The cli…

I remember having to use different flags for bzip2 (j vs y) in tar on FreeBSD vs Linux about 15 years ago so I was sure they were different, but I have an image of a FreeBSD 4.10 b…

Press i in Vimium, ctrl-z in Pentadactyl, or shift+esc in Vimperator, and they will pass everything except esc (shift+esc in vimperator) to the page.